mental health days

my parents are both psychologists, so as a kid we always got to take mental health days off school.

last night jason and i had a spat. it was part me being tired, part pms, part him being the abominable snowjerk. so needless to say, i took a mental health day. for two reasons, i was incredibly tired all day. slept from 8am to 2pm. (my sleep is off since i’m working nights at the casino) and then i also took a nap from some unknown time 8ish to 9:30. i also called into work because jason and i work together at the grocery store. and after my tantrum/crocodile tears of last night, i thought it was the opposite of progress for us to spend all fucking day together.

so i have been reading the chamber by john grisham. it is about the death penalty. and issue that i am so strongly opposed to. i never really thought about it, to me it was obvious, two wrongs don’t make a right. but by reading this book i’m able to imagine the dread of knowing the precise moment of your death. the character in this story is guilty, but what about the innocent? surely that kate winslet movie made a good point. the more and more i get into this book i realize how angry the prison system makes me. i like the guy that clanky mentioned in her diary. the sheriff that does not allow tv’s, radio, etc, but does have a library. i do think that prisoners are entiteled to exersize, it seems ridiculous to stay inside all day. but the maximum security idea just gets me angry. no one should be in a 6×9 cell 23 hours a day. but oh well. maybe someday i will be a lawyer and save all the death row clients.

it is certainly time for me to climb back into bed. but i will be around later.

school in three days!

Clanky

January 5, 2007

I gave my kids mental health days and I couldn’t be farther from a psychotherapist. However, if they took it off, they were not allowed to have friends over or participate in anything else public the rest of the day. See, I’m more of a moderate. I see your folks as more liberal. The kid of conservative parents must have to fake it. Must be terrible to be brought up in a household whereyou have to lie to your own parents to just get a break …

The Pied Pippette

January 6, 2007

My mother never let me have mental health days, mostly because when we were little she had to work. Of course, by the time I grew up old enough to decide for myself, I decided that I like having perfect attedance and I don’t take them as often as I should. *shrugs*

curious dave

blowing a kiss, of course, how stupid of me. prison “system” and death penalty of this country make me angry, too. I plan to write more about the death penalty. If it were up to me, I would keep idle socialization among prisoners to a minimum, keep them safe from each other, provide some kind of work & training, only allow selected reading matter/entertainment, let them earn priviledges, don’t let them spend all their time buffing up with weights, try to channel their lives away from where they are now, show them there’s another way. It’s a hard problem, though. Davo

January 7, 2007

ryn: LOL Well, we eat dark bread so unless I burn the toast I can’t see her face. We were going to buy mushy white bread just so we could see her face without setting off the smoke detectors!

ryn(s)rym(s) re HK: Oh!! Do you face the bagels in or out?